Foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: Unbundling spatial lags

Journal of Regional Science

Volumn 49, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 749-775

  Poelhekke, Steven ^a   van der Ploeg, Frederick ^b,c  

^a Research Department   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGGLOMERATION; CAPITAL FLOW; FOREIGN DIRECT INVESTMENT; INDUSTRIAL INVESTMENT; INVESTMENT LOCATION; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; SIZE EFFECT;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70350429554     PISSN: 00224146     EISSN: 14679787     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2009.00632.x     Document Type: Article

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